Opening scene of The girl with the dragon tattoo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY4f_83t_rw

Info

Columbia pictures and Metro-Goldwyn Mayer pictures presents

Scott Rudin Yellow Bird production

David Fincher film

MAIN ACTORS-
Daniel Craig

Rooney Mara

TITLE- The Girl with the dragon tattoo

ACTORS-

Christopher Plummer

Stellan Skarsgard

Steven Berkoff

Robin Wright

Yorick Yan Wageningen

Joely Richardson

Geraldine James

Goran Visnjic

Donald Sumpter

Ulf Friberg

casting by - Laray Mayfield

Costume design- Trish Summervill

Co-producer- Berna Levin, Eli Bush

Sound Design- Ren Klyce

Music by- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

Editors- Kirk Baxter a.c.e Angus Wall a.c.e

Production Design- Donald Graham Burt

Director of Photography- Jeff Cronenweth a.s.c

Excusive Producers- Steven Zaillian, Mikael Wallen, Anni Faurbye Fernandez

Produced by- Scott Ruin, Ole Sondberg, Soren Staermose, Cean Chaffin

Based on the book by Stieg Larrson

Orginally produced by Norstedts

Screen play by- Steven Zillian

Directed by David Fincher

Action

People are tied up and there is black ink being spilt everywhere

ink spilling out of someones mouth

wires and cables intertwining

i can already sense that it isnt going to be a happy film

i also get the sence that the peope are robots

Its a lot of random weird clips of things and people

Fire starts and people burn

this is where everything starts to get fast

Eagel of fire

People coming out of water

People being beaten up

sicking out money

From just watching the opening scene you can tell that this film is going to be very torturus and violent.

SEMIOLOGY

Semiology is the study of signs. All humans create meaning for different signs they see without realising. For example; a heart means romance, having a shot of a knife automatically gives off the impression that someone is about to get murdered. A lot of things you see on TV you create meaning for without thinking about it, this is because the media use these signs the way you see them to create obvious meaning for the audience.
We also create steriotypical images of people, for example; if we see hooded teenaged boys in black and looking suspicious we automatically feel as though they are going to do something bad.
= LOVE
=MURDER

Camera lesson with Adam- different shots

Close-up- head and shoulders, can be used to make dramatic tension or revealing moments. Close shots work to increase audience indentification with a character.

Mid-shot- down to the waist. gives of body language and shows clothing and style of the character.

Wide-shot- shows location and a wider vision and scene. Often used at the begining of a scene and at end. Also sets atmosphere.


Big close-up- head or part of the head, this is to show emotion and detail of someone.

Medium close-up- head and shoulders to top pocket, used for alround shots.

Over the shoulder- this hekps create the dynamic between the character and what they are seeing, it almost puts you in there body. It is used a lot to suggest that someone is being followed or watched by an unseen presence.

Low angle- camera points up from eyeline. Can indicate high status or if someone is powerfull or intimidating.

High-angle- camera points down from above eyeline. looking down on someone can indicate that someone is low status or show their vunerability.

Long shot- full figure i shot. gives meaning to where the person is and their location. it can often be used to distance the audiencefrom events or suggest loneliness or isolation.

Point of view- provides perspective from a particular characters point of view.

Two shot, Three shot- by framing two or more characters in the same shot shows how the characteres relate to each other.

Medium-long shot-  including knees. provides more physical information than the mid shot but less close up detail.

WOMAN IN BLACK POWER POINT

http://www.scribd.com/doc/107140139

'Kill Bill: Vol 1'

The first 42 seconds shows the three men hammering the woman in the coffin. At the same time it playing disturbing slow whistling pan pipe music, which is very western style, the whole set is all very western, with the male characters dresses in cowboy hats and she is wearing cowboy boots.

The hammering starts to speed up when you can see only a slight gap left to close; this is when you can hear the woman groaning and breathing heavily. the volume on the last nail has been altered and made lounder to create a scared effect for the audience.

At 43 seconds the pan pipe music stops and allows you to hear the back ground sounds, like a dog barking. At this point you can hear the men shoveling mud on her coffin, this creates a scratchy sound caused by the gravel and shovel. This made the audience concentrate because its a big build up, this is an interesting a scene because it isnt usual for Hollywood films to have a blanc screen for such a long period which could have made it quite risky.

PRELIMARY TASK



PAGE ONE

For our prelim task we were put in for 3 groups of 4. In the group I was in we had Helena being director, Alex being a camera operator and me and Gil were actors. At the beginning we were given a story board which looked like this:

For out set we used the TV studio, this had a set that was already in place for the activity. We decided that for our act we would set it in modern day times so we wore youthful clothing and for our prop we used a condom. The camera we used was a Sony NX5 with a tripod, we had to set everything up at the begining like, white balance and focusing before filming each scene.

PAGE TWO

We had to get in 3 different main shots; over the shoulder, wide shot and close up. Each time we filmed a shot we filmed the whole sequence in the shot to prevent jumpy editing. The first shot we did did was the wide shot there were 4 scenes that we needed but we filmed the whole sequence from the begining. Wide shot is used so the audience can see a lot more of the set and actors, directors use the wide shots so they can fit a lot more in the scene.We then went on to doing over the shoulder shots which there were 4 of them too. Over the should shots allows the audience to become closer to the audience and feel as if they are getting the same view as the actor are. The last shot we had to use was close up, we used close up 4 times. This is used to capture feelings and emotions facially, we used it when Gill and i were in a conversation, we also used close up of our main prop, the condom which creates meaning for the audience. When filming in the shot we selected we didnt change the position of it at all, this meant that sometimes although we still ran the whole scene together we werent always in the shot. We also added in one last shot which was silmed through curtain blinds over the shoulder, this automatically gives the audience the feel as if someone was watching the actors.

Although i was infront of the camera, there was only four of us so we all had to control the camera together, and organise and direct as a group. i was also watching how to operate the camera and vocally helped Alex with the decisions for the shots.


FINAL COPY OF PRELIM:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3HJzfF49Is&list=UUwxVEfHzBUtutL-OGAFRwGg&index=84



CAMERA LESSON 2

The second lesson we were taught about the different frame shots, such as; close up, mid-shot and wide shot. We shot the same sequence in all three shots but tried to keep the continuity the same so we could crop and edit the frames in during the sequence, continuity is something that is very important whilst repeat filming, this is why we used white tape to mark out where the main things happen so they happen in the same places. For the zoomed in shot we had to focus the camera first by zooming into something focusing and the zooming out. We also learnt about the different rolls in media, for example, being a director or filmier.

CAMERA LESSON 1

On Friday the 7th we had our first technical camera lesson. The first thing we learnt was how to set up the tri-pod and how to attach the camera to it (we use a Sony NX5- a low grade professional camera), whilst changing the height of the tri-pod how to fit the battery in. The technician explained about the three main dials on the lenses; focusing, zooming and exposure. Then we went on to learn about the white balance button, this sets the colouring balance right and stopped it going a greeny/blue colouring. To do this someone has to stand in front of the camera whilst the filmier would zoom in on something white, like a white piece of paper or a white wall.

Hello
My name is Jemima Roblin and i am studying; media studies, textiles and photography at Hurtwood House. Before Hurtwood i went to Bedales, i moved to Hurtwood to study more art based subjects such as Media, this is because when i leave school i would like to be in the media. i chose to do those three subjects because i think that thet all link together well, espeshially media and photography because the camera work is very simular and therefore i can get to understand it quicker, textiles is also goes well with media because it brings creative side to the films and shots.

I enjoy most genres of films especially thrillers, action, comedy and romcoms. I really enjoy watching a broad range of films and talking to others about how they felt about it. i like to analyze films and think about why the director decided to do something and how they did it, i find it interesting finding out things how the shot some shots.